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FOX News is Funding the Ground Zero Mosque
August 24, 2010 By View Comments
Should Religious Affiliation Matter for Supreme Court Justices?
May 19, 2010 By View Comments
CNN craps all over the First Amendment
Six Catholics and three Jews walk into a bar…I said I wanted to hold nine grudges complained the man.
Can we at least pretend to give a damn about the First Amendment to the United States Constitution?
A legitimate news agency (which I realize is a stretch for CNN) shouldn’t be mired in what basically amounts to tabloid gossip about the religious beliefs of the Supreme Court justices. Why is it that the same flag waving, commie hating, gay bashing conservatives are always the ones so worried about what Jesus a politician or judge believes in?
A Supreme Court’s justice’s beliefs are personal and should have absolutely no bearing on whether or not they are qualified to hold a seat on the highest court in the country. We should be seeking out people that are wise enough, smart enough and secure enough in their beliefs to understand the importance of not allowing their own set of morals to affect their decisions.
Until we can come together as a nation of right-minded citizens and demand that our leaders have the courage to stand up to the vocal minority of religious zealots trying to shove their morals down the throats of society by any means necessary.
There’s no lower form of creature in our society currently than the spineless politicians that run on and kowtow to the religious right in order to get elected. There’s no greater threat to the success of our society than the cost of trying to enforce other people’s moral beliefs in a set of laws where punishment for even minor infractions land the guilty people in jail or prison without ever having harmed any person or their property.
Until that can happen, until we can put reason and logic ahead of arbitrary, self-righteous egoists trying to superimpose their values on society, we’re in for a long, dark journey to happiness.
Rumsfeld and Jesus Torturing Evildoers to Keep America Safe
May 20, 2009 By View Comments
It’s hard to imagine what Bush’s to-do list looked like, but I’m guessing it was probably something like this.
- Campaign for President as an evangelical Christian: Check
- “Win” the Presidential election after the only person at the only media outlet in the country to claim that you won the state your brother was the Governor of, was your cousin John Ellis at Fox News: Check
- Invade an oil-rich country based on trumped and/or blatantly false allegations while preying on the fear of the American public: Check
- Snatch people from around the world, transport them to an American military base, torture and release them: Check
- Appoint a Defense Secretary who hand delivers war briefings to you quoting Biblical scripture and referring to your war on terror as a crusade: Check
“Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.” [The quote appears over an image of a tank at sunrise]
“Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.” [The quote appears over an image of a soldier in Baghdad]
“It is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men.” [The quote appears over an image of Saddam Hussein]
“Open the gates that the righteous nation may enter, The nation that keeps faith.” [The quote appears over an image of tanks entering an Iraqi city]
The briefing’s cover sheet generally featured triumphant, color images from the previous days’ war efforts: On this particular morning, it showed the statue of Saddam Hussein being pulled down in Firdos Square, a grateful Iraqi child kissing an American soldier, and jubilant crowds thronging the streets of newly liberated Baghdad. And above these images, and just below the headline secretary of defense, was a quote that may have raised some eyebrows. It came from the Bible, from the book of Psalms: “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him…To deliver their soul from death.”
But the Pentagon’s top officials were apparently unconcerned about the effect such a disclosure might have on the conduct of the war or on Bush’s public standing. When colleagues complained to Shaffer that including a religious message with an intelligence briefing seemed inappropriate, Shaffer politely informed them that the practice would continue, because “my seniors”—JCS chairman Richard Myers, Rumsfeld, and the commander in chief himself—appreciated the cover pages.
Religion is hardwired into our brains, brains, BRAINS!
February 5, 2009 By View Comments
Apparently P.T. Barnum was wrong, there’s not a sucker born every minute. There’s one born…well, everytime someone is born apparently.
Religion is part of human nature and our brains are hard wired to believe in God, scientists believe.
The evidence includes studies of babies and children which have shown the brain is programmed to think of the mind as being separate from the body.
This distinction allows us to believe in the supernatural, to conjure up imaginary friends – and to conceive of gods, this week’s New Scientist reports.
Other studies suggest our minds come with an overdeveloped sense of cause and effect, which primes us to see purpose and design everywhere, even when there is none.Children as young as seven or eight believe that rocks, rivers and birds have been created for a specific purpose.
Taken together, the two traits mean were are perfectly programmed to believe in god.
‘All humans possess the brain circuitry and it never goes away.’
So the next time religion comes up, you can just whip out this post and calmly explain that while some of their beliefs may seem far-fetched, they are actually a part of the wiring of their brain and there’s really not much anyone can do about it.
Vatican forgives John Lennon for Jesus remark
November 23, 2008 By View Comments
I’m sure the guy who wrote and sang, “and no religion too”, will finally be able to rest easy now that the Vatican has forgiven him.
“The remark by John Lennon, which triggered deep indignation mainly in the United States, after many years sounds only like a ‘boast’ by a young working-class Englishman faced with unexpected success, after growing up in the legend of Elvis and rock and roll,” Vatican daily Osservatore Romano said.
Guess they finally decided it pales in comparison to that whole pesky inquisition thing.
GOP’s Base Now Predominately Uneducated, Poor White Folk
November 14, 2008 By View Comments
It seems that the GOP’s current stance on social, cultural and religious issues is finally managing to weed out…well pretty much everyone who has an actual thought process:
Republicans have lost an enormous amount of support among upscale voters, basically just breaking even among those with household incomes above $50,000 a year, a traditional GOP stronghold. Similarly, McCain’s losing to Obama among college graduates and voters who have attended some college underscores how much the GOP franchise is in trouble. My hunch is that the Republican Party’s focus on social, cultural, and religious issues — most notably, fights over embryonic-stem-cell research and Terri Schiavo — cost its candidates dearly among upscale voters.
Sadly, judging by the popular vote totals there’s still a whole crapload of them left.
